So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most
debated drawbacks is that it lacks support for Adobe Flash. The iPhone does
not support Flash either, and since the iPad is based on the iPhone OS, this
should not come as a surprise.

However, the thing is this: Flash sucks. It is a proprietary technology under
the control of Adobe and the only reason it is currently popular is that it
provides a kind of standard for video playback across all browsers and
operating systems. But it still sucks. It crashes. It is shit.

The iPhone is immensely popular, despite the lack of flash. The iPhone user
base is huge. By using Flash in your website, you are excluding a large
population of potential visitors. So this is what will happen: websites will
start dumping Flash. The iPhone and the iPad will together kill Flash.

And that is a good thing for everybody, especially for proponents of open
standards and open formats. Oh irony, that it will take a closed proprietary
platform to do so.